(07 Dec 2020, 10:28 pm)L469 YVK wrote Good idea, but that would most likely see the PVR increasing back to 17 vehicles.

Not too sure on the numbers, but tbh just need to look at ways to get passengers on them before touching the Coast Road. These are pie in sky ideas but one idea could be messing around with the 1 so have something like:

1A: Metro Centre to Howdon (Current 1A to Wallsend then 41 route after that) - Every 30 Mins
1B: Lobley Hill to North Shields (Current 1B curtailed at North Shields) - Every Hour
1C: Team Valley to North Shields (Team Valley Retail World to the top then same as 1B to North Shields) - Every Hour (30 Mins at Peak)

309 - Every 20 Minutes
310 - Every 20 Minutes extended to Whitley Bay via the 1A/1B route giving new useful connections not ones that shadow the Metro.

Q3 - Extended to Battle Hill via 41 route - Every 15 Minutes (still a bus to Newcastle even known it's v. slow but new links nevertheless)

41 / 91 / 311 scrapped

Has a few benefits such as an all day service to Team Valley which serves the East of Newcastle without a change, the 1 is shorter so the impacts on delays won't affect the route as much plus it's no longer every 20 / 40 minutes which is useless. Then the biggest one is they could make a massive campaign about the 309/310 being the buses to the seaside as they serve the length from Blyth to Tynemouth which could be popular in the summer so extra revenue there. Okay there's a small loss to the 1 between Howden and Shields and Hadrian Park don't have the 311 anymore but they're the only negatives really. Your also restoring the old 325/326 (think that was the number) mostly aswell.